By Richard Hargy, Visiting Research Fellow in International Studies, Queen's University Belfast
The states are high, so the Trump administration is trying to change voting laws, while both sides gerrymandering to give them an advantage.
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By Edward White, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Kingston University
Climate change is reshaping weather patterns around the world, with monsoons, droughts, hurricanes and heatwaves all occurring with greater frequency and intensity. Aside from disturbing ecosystems, these environmental shifts risk triggering psychological reactions in people that can escalate into violent conflict.
The cognitive mechanisms that are triggered in people as a result of the effects of climate change share fundamental similarities with aggression…
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By Jason Reed, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
Even in the best of times, the Fed has a tough time interpreting the data and deciding how best to guide the US economy.
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By Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
In each era of globalisation since the mid-17th century, a single country has sought to be the clear world leader – shaping the rules of the global economy for all.
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By Paul Pettitt, Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 and 12,000 years ago) were capable of artistic flair.
Discoveries of uncontrovertibly old artworks from the caves and rockshelters of Europe soon dispelled their doubts. But what of the Neanderthals; an ancient, large-brained sister group to our own species? We now know that they were capable of making…
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By Lydia Begoña Horndler Gil, Profesor en inmunología y biología del cáncer, Universidad San Jorge
If you’re reading this there’s a good chance that you, like me, are a millennial. If so, you’ve probably noticed more and more cases of friends or acquaintances with diseases that you would normally associate with later adulthood – hypertension, type 2 diabetes or perhaps even the one that we’re all scared to name: cancer.
Millennials – people born between 1981 and 1995 – are the first generation at greater risk of developing tumours than their parents. Between 1990 and 2019, cases of early-onset…
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By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
A pragmatic form of socialism based on improving ordinary people’s lives is winning votes – and making powerful enemies – in equal measure.
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By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
With fertility rates at a record low, many say young people aren’t having kids because they’re too expensive. Turns out, it’s not that simple.
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By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
A key commitment at May’s federal election was an A$8.5 billion promise to increase incentives for GPs to bulk bill patients. The government moved quickly after the election, with new arrangements to start on November 1.
When a patient is bulk billed they don’t have any out-of-pocket payment to see a GP. If a patient isn’t bulk billed, the GP can charge an out-of-pocket…
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By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
Till Ramm, Research Associate, Sciences Department, Museums Victoria Research Institute
In pockets of highlands across Australia’s east lives a shy and secretive lizard. It’s usually reddish grey in colour, with two pale strips running the length of its spiky back. Growing to a maximum of 20 centimetres, it could easily fit in the palm of an adult’s hand.
But although the mountain dragon (Rankinia diemensis) is small, it can teach us big lessons about the influence of climate change on Australian biodiversity, as our new research, published today in Current Biology, demonstrates.
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